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Smart is still available in the +</I>><i> Mandriva repos. +</I>I think what might be referred to is that Conectiva was the one who +originally did the port of apt to rpm and was using it. +AFAIK Gustavo Niemeyer who's the author of smart and the last person +who maintained apt at Conectiva, started working on smart as a +replacement for apt due to various issues with it. I don't really know +if Conectiva really got around to replacing apt with smart before +being bought by Mandriva, but the original plan IIRC was for smart to +eventually replace urpmi, but Niemeyer left Mandriva to work at +Canonical only a few months after.. + +Personally I've been intimate with the code of both apt & smart, and I +must say that +I was much happier doing development on smart, apt code wasn't very nice.. +Also apt for rpm development has pretty much died since, with upstream +being pronounced dead and other distributions such as Ark Linux which +used apt in the past, has abandoned it as well as a result.. + +><i> +</I>><i> <rant> +</I>><i> I just love these kind of pointless threads. I still haven't seen any +</I>><i> arguments why rpm,urpmi and rpmdrake are bad or what would be gained +</I>><i> by switching to deb, apt, synaptics or whatever gizmo of the day. +</I>><i> However, what I *can* see is that most of these "arguments" (or lack +</I>><i> of thereof) stem from GUI preferences of individual people, not any +</I>><i> technical merits of one system or another. Making decisions with +</I>><i> profound impact isn't going (hopefully!) happen on who is the most +</I>><i> vocal person, so please - either provide real arguments, or stop this +</I>><i> pointless discussion. Even better, just stop it, because this topic +</I>><i> was rehashed ad-nauseam on Cooker several times already and I do not +</I>><i> see what we gain by producing more useless e-mail traffic. +</I>><i> </rant> +</I>Opting for smart OTOH is something a lot of good arguments could be +made in favor of, but that's really out of scope for this thread +anyways.. ;) + +-- +Regards, +Per Øyvind +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001362.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia with Synaptic +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001370.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia´s Blog translate +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1408">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1408">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1408">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1408">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |